Tag: Mac
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PowerBook G4 wake-from-sleep keyboard failure
I’m having a really annoying problem with my Apple PowerBook G4 keyboard: If the PowerBook hasn’t fully gone to sleep when the lid is closed, then the keyboard fails when the PowerBook wakes from sleep. The effect of this is that without a functioning keyboard, I am unable to login to the PowerBook and so…
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New lame Adserving software
Mark Evans has written an article about a new Ad Serving company called AdGenta. It is supposed to deliver more relevant ads because you upload your blogs posts through a downloadable AdGenta application called Qumana (where do they come up with these names?). You compose the post in Qumana, click on the advertising button and…
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Nano problem solved – leave it in the store window
Jim Dalrymple writing in macWorld, got a response from Apple about the iPod Nano screen scratching problem I mentioned here a couple of days ago. On Apple’s own Discussions site – the number of posts complaining about the screen scratch problem was 583 when the Register checked, and when I had a look this morning,…
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Test post from WordPressDash
This is a test post from WordPressDash – WordPressDash is a Dashboard widget for Mac OS X 10.4 (a.k.a Tiger) which allows you to create and upload posts for your WordPress blog from the Dashboard. In theory this is very cool – and it looks very cool, but in practice, it lacks a lot of…
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java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: getProxyConfigURL error on OS X
I keep getting the java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: getProxyConfigURL error when trying to view certain pages with embedded java apps – ie http://www.irishisptest.com/myspeed/ and http://visualroute.visualware.com/ This was happening under 10.3 and I had hoped that the upgrade to 10.4 (Tiger) would resolve it. Other Mac users can view these pages so I know it is peculiar to my…
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Virtual desktop manager for OS X
I found a great virtual desktop manager for OS X – it is called Desktop Manager (strangely enough!) and is freely downloadable here. Desktop Manager allows you to have any number of named virtual ‘screens’ (up to available memory) to arrange your programs on, Sticky window support (allowing you to have one window on all…
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make sure you have permission to write to /tmp/501/TemporaryItems/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate
make sure you have permission to write to /tmp/501/TemporaryItems/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate error on Software Update on OS X solved!
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Free backup utility for Mac OS X
Matthew Phillips wrote a piece on how to backup your Mac using a free utility called RsyncX. The article goes through different backup scenarios in detail and will be useful for anyone who wants to backup their Mac. RsyncX is downloadable from VersionTracker. More info on RsyncX and its author Kevin Boyd is available here.